Sexual predator who was one of FBI's 'Ten Most Wanted' fugitives shot and killed by agents at North Carolina motel

A sexual predator who was one of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives was killed by agents at a North Carolina motel on Wednesday.

The armed suspect who was fatally shot in the Raleigh suburb of Apex was believed to be Greg Carlson, who was wanted in connection with multiple sexual assaults and other crimes.

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“Agents approached the room and tried to take Carlson into custody,” Paul Delacourt, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles office, said during a press conference. “Following an altercation over a gun, Carlson was shot to death by FBI agents.”

Carlson, 47, had been linked by DNA to sexual assaults dating back to 2003. He had also been tracked by investigators to South Carolina, Alabama and Florida.

In September he was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with assault with intent to commit rape, assault with a deadly weapon and burglary. He posted bond and was released, and then fled to South Carolina. He was spotted in Alabama in November and led police on a high-speed chase, but was able to get away.

The suspect was then spotted in two parts of Florida later that month.

“Carlson has demonstrated a pattern of violent crimes against women stretching over a period of years," Scott Garriola of the FBI’s Los Angeles Fugitive Task Force said last year. "There is no reason to think he will stop until we catch him.”